It occured to me recently that I have never shown screen shots of the LinkPeek Dashboard itself.
If you join LinkPeek you will gain access to a tool that helps you take screen shots of web pages.
It allows you to choose the size and viewport of the images.

So you use Pelican static site generator and you want to add a custom Jinja filter for use in your templates? Great!

In this post I show how to take a simple Python function and make it accessable as a custom filter. As an example we will create a filter called LinkPeek which will allow us to easily embed website screenshots into our pages.

My favorite image manipulator program is GIMP and I often find myself with a directory full of xcf (gimp project files) that I would like to convert into PNGs for use on the web or in a video game. I like to keep my "master" copy of image assets in xcf format to preserve layer and history meta-data.

We migrated the LinkPeek blog from static HTML to a static HTML blog generated with pelican. There are many static site generators and blogs frameworks to choose from. We decided to move our blog to pelican for the following reasons:

To improve blog organization

We now have Categories, tags, and a blog roll. Our posts are now linked together intelligently.

I am truly sorry for the grotesque and disgusting imagery posted on our site this morning. I left the "most recent" image on the website even though multiple people warned me about the possible misuse. I blame only myself.

I lost my lunch today. My nerves are all messed up. I have worked on the LinkPeek software for the past 6 months. The thought that LinkPeek was used …